From: wd@cs.tu-berlin.de (Wolfgang Diestelkamp)
Subject: Re: How universal are phones these days?
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In-reply-to: hugo@cats.ucsc.edu's message of 26 Apr 1993 07:32:33 GMT

In article <1rg36hINNsr6@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> hugo@cats.ucsc.edu (Hugo Calendar) writes:

> I'm wondering if I can tote my American touch tone phone around with me
> to Sweden and Germany.  It's DC powered, and I can buy a special adapter
> for that in Europe.  The question is if the general electronics work
> the same.  I can buy a different wall plug and refit it (I'm sure I'd
> have to), but would that do the trick?

Two things to watch for:
In Germany (and I think the same holds for Sweden) only some
of the connections can handle tone dialing, so make sure the
phone can be set to pulse dialing.
In Sweden, the '0' is the first digit and all other digits
are pushed "down" by one position; this makes dialing (and
in the process converting numbers) an interesting task.
Otherwise, it is technically no problem to connect a foreign
phone to either the German or Swedish phone system.
OTOH neither you nor I would ever try that, as it is of course
illegal.
-- 
Wolfgang Diestelkamp
wd@cs.tu-berlin.de
wolfgang@first.gmd.de